Author: EUCLIDES.- DOU, J. PZN.,
Title: De ses eerste boucken Euclides, van de beginselen ende fondamenten der geometrie. Waer by ghevoecht zijn eenighe nutticheden uyt de selve boecken ghetrocken; Mitsgaders de specien in Geometrische figueren als 't maken veranderen 't samen-voughen/ aftrecken/vermenichvuldighen/ ende deelen. overgeset ver... tot vorderinghe, ende oeffeninghe, van alle leergierighe, lief hebbers der selver vryer Conste. Door Ian Pieterszoon Dou, der Stadt Leyden Landmeeter ende Wijnroeyer. ...
Description: Amsterdam, By Willem Iansz. op 'Water / in de vergulde Sonnewijser, 1616. W. numerous woodc. ills. in the text. 17th c. overlapping vellum, with original and contemp. clasp [vellum looped threads on lower covers and 1 [of 2] small bone or ivory bead remains on upper cover. [A8 (A4,5 replaced in 17th c. manuscript), B-P8]. (XIV, [2 lvs. 'Tot den leser', being lvs. A4 and A5 replaced in 17th c. handwriting; page 1 / 2 of the text on A8], 1-220 pp.). (Title page and A2, A3 backed with / mounted on Japanese paper, both lvs. with a few small wormholes mid upper center, loss of 12-15 printed letters on these 3 leaves.). (Quires A, E and F lower righthand margin a small vague watersp.; Quire L idem lower righthand corner a more visible watersp.). Rare Second Dutch edition. BdH Dou, sub 1220 [First ed. 1606] does not mention this 1616 reimpression, only a 1626. Not in Sotheby's Geometry and Space sale April 2002, Euclid section, only mentions one dutch ed. 1647. Sotheran vol. I of the Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica, item 7669 [1626 ed], mistakenly identifying this 1626 as 'The earliest translation of Euclid into Dutch'. Very rare early Dutch edition.

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